Be The Stig: GT5's Top Gear Test Track

First screenshots.

TSA Staff, 6 years ago, 105 comments.

Gran Turismo 5, we’re told, aims to set new standards in terms of graphics, presentation, and gameplay. Featuring more than 1,000 licensed cars and more than 20 tracks, GT5 is going to be utterly epic.

We’ve seen some ridiculous screenshots today (your rear lights actually change the colour of the smoke on the rally courses, for example) but nothing more interesting than these four official shots of the Top Gear Test Track.

Modeled to perfection, this will be your chance to challenge The Stig’s best times on what appears to be an exact replica of the famous BBC circuit, and will allow 16 player online racing around the course, totally changing the dynamic.

i still dont understand face tracking. does it work for normal TVs or do you need some sort of special one. Otherwise how can you turn your head and see the rest of the car when you wont even be looking at the screen anymore?

I wasn’t entirely sure whether I was that interested in GT5 (simply cause I’m not usually that interested in racing games). Dunno why, but this has just sold it to me =] – well, this and everything else GT5 related today and yesterday.

Wow those screenshots look incredible, the level of detail and realism is stunning, and the idea of racing the Stig’s times is genius – I would love this to get a feature on the actual Top Gear too (although I suspect the BBC can’t promote a single console or game). I’m not a massive fan of racing simulators but this just seems like a game you have to have in your collection regardless!

To be fair to them it may have been delayed a lot but they have sure added a hell of a lot of features – anyone else would have just released it years ago and released GT6 with the new bits this year!

The BBC advertise films etc on the breakfast news most days, and besides it wouldn’t be the first time that the Top Gear team (in particular Jeremy Clarkson!) had done something that the BBC wouldn’t approve of :D

What would be awesome is if the licences used the top gear test track.
One of which could be stopping distance… like in GT4, but instead of cones, it’s just the stig at hte end with his arms crossed like usual.

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